Selase W. Williams: Sierra Leone Krio

Cover: 9780761874508 | Sierra Leone Krio | Language, Culture, and Traditions | Taschenbuch

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Beschreibung

This book offers a comprehensive, holistic, and systematic description and analysis of the language, culture, and traditions of the Sierra Leone Krio people. The authors bring significant new insights into the establishment of Krio society, a better understanding of the linguistic elements in the Krio language, and greater recognition, use, and role of oral traditions in the everyday lives of the people.
The authors celebrate Krio creativity as reflected in their fashion, music, and poetry. Featured here are some previously unpublished Krio poems, as well as Jamaican Patois poems that have been translated for the first time in Krio and English. These latter poems reveal the similarities in the themes, social commentary, and African continuities witnessed across the diaspora.
The authors provide concrete evidence that the underlying structure of Krio is based in languages belonging to the Kwa language family. Unique in their analysis of Krio language is the demonstration of substantive linguistic contributions from at least one indigenous local language, Temne, and opens up a whole new area for future research.

Über den Autor

Selase W. Williams was director of African American Studies at the University of Washington, where he taught Krio for a decade. He chaired the Pan African Studies Department at California State University, Northridge, while president of the National Council for Black Studies, and served as dean of Arts and Sciences at CSU Dominguez Hills before becoming provost at Southern Connecticut State and Lesley University.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: History
Chapter 1History of the Krio People and Their Language
Part II: Krio Language
Chapter 2Language Basics
Chapter 3Greetings and Simple Sentences
Chapter 4Complex Sentence Structures
Chapter 5African Linguistic Foundations in Krio and the Diaspora
Part III: Krio Culture and Traditions
Chapter 6Elements of Krio Culture
Chapter 7Krio Traditions
Chapter 8Krio Folk Wisdom: Parables and Riddles
Chapter 9Krio Stories and Trickster Tales
Chapter 10Poetry in Sierra Leone Krio and Jamaican Patois
Afterword
Glossary
Krio Words/Expressions and Their Meanings
Some Krio Names and Their Meanings
Appendix
Bibliography
Additional Reading List
About the Authors
Index

Erscheinungsjahr:	2024
Fachbereich:	Allgemeines
Genre:	Importe
Rubrik:	Sozialwissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
ISBN-13:	9780761874508
ISBN-10:	076187450X
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Williams, Selase W. Spencer-Walters, Tom
Hersteller:	Hamilton Books
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	229 x 152 x 18 mm
Von/Mit:	Selase W. Williams (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum:	26.07.2024
Gewicht:	0,506 kg